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Patapsco Friends Meeting is again planning a series of discussions about Quakerism. We would like to invite you and interested members of your meeting to join us on the next few third Tuesdays at 7 pm on zoom. The format is … Read more

From QuakerSpeak… Through the centuries, many Quakers have chosen to express their commitment to pacifism by refusing to pay taxes to support war. In this episode from 2016, Paul Buckley reviews the history of this movement from colonial Pennsylvania to … Read more

This wonderful community building event is coming up soon!!! The Quaker Spring Market offers fantastic food and flea market treasures, as well as Afghan rugs, jewelry, scarves. There will be berry bushes, tomato plants, flowers, pepper plants, eggplant, The Light … Read more

Access Archive of Live and Recorded Pendle Hill Presentations Pendle Hill  is “a Quaker, Philadelphia-area retreat and conference center which seeks to transform lives and foster peace with justice in the world.”  The Pendle Hill web page “Live & Recorded Lectures” … Read more

From the Philadelphia non-profit news service…  Reporter Jordan Levy writes … “A meeting group in Germantown is running a legal clinic this weekend as part of an effort to give reparations for Quaker involvement in American slavery. The clinic, one … Read more

From the Quaker Voice Newsletter… “Hello Friends, Welcome to Week 14 of the General Assembly! Last week… Governor Hogan vetoed the Child Interrogation Protection Act! Thankfully state lawmakers moved quickly to override the veto and this bill was successfully passed. Whew! Governor Hogan announced he … Read more

Online Meetings to uphold Ukraine Friends House Moscow supporters in the USA are running an international online Meeting for Worship, to join other Friends holding in the Light all the people affected by the current crisis in Ukraine. This meeting … Read more

Bayard T. Rustin’s Pragmatic Quaker Faith  –  by Carlos Figueroa Rustin delivered the William Penn Lecture to the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of 1948. Rustin’s address and his thoughts on civil disobedience and moral imperatives are discussed in this essay by … Read more

The QVM, writes … “Hello Friends, Welcome to Week 13 of the General Assembly! Last week… Child Interrogation Protection Act, Climate Solutions Now Act, and Energy Performance Targets & Low Income Housing are all heading to the governor’s desk! At this point all … Read more

“For a non-Muslim, encountering the Qur’an for the first time might be perplexing,” Michael Birkel said in a 2018 interview. “That’s why I think it’s valuable to read it in the company of persons who have been reading it their … Read more

Hello Friends, Welcome to Week 12 of the General Assembly! Last week… Child Interrogation Protection Act, Climate Solutions Now Act, and Energy Performance Targets & Low Income Housing all made it past Crossover Day! Next step is making sure these bills get … Read more

Dear Reader, We’re writing to share with you Quaker Earthcare Witness’ most recent annual report. We’re pleased to say that we are growing steadily and building momentum. And we couldn’t have done it without you. Thank you for your generous … Read more

Spring Work Days at Camp   It’s time to get our camps cleaned up and ready for the spring and summer seasons! We will have 1 work day each for Opequon (5/14) and Shiloh (5/7) and 2 work days for Catoctin (4/9 and 6/11). If … Read more

Historic Annapolis Presents… Date: Tuesday, March 29, 2022 Location: Zoom Virtual Lecture Time: 7 pm (EST) The Quakers—formally known as the Society of Friends—were the first group of white Christians to confront slaveholding as a religious problem that demanded social action. But in … Read more

See the QuakerSpeak Twitter and Facebook posts for more. “I always march to my own drummer and my drummer doesn’t play the type of music that anybody around me ever wants to hear,” Mary Linda McKinney admitted last year. “I’m pretty … Read more

Online Meetings to uphold Ukraine Friends House Moscow supporters in the USA are running an international online Meeting for Worship, to join other Friends holding in the Light all the people affected by the current crisis in Ukraine. This meeting … Read more

Baltimore Yearly Meeting Presents… Jonathan Balcombe, author of the New York Times best-seller What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins, will tell us why he has come to see fishes as fellow sentients and how our food … Read more

Quaker EarthCare Witness shares a video of recent event… “International Climate Policy: From Quiet Diplomacy to Youth Activism, with Lindsey Cook and Kallan Benson. As they discussed, it takes all of us, each doing our part, to clear a way … Read more

Quaker Earthcare Witness is hosting monthly online worship sharing groups in partnership with Friends General Conference. QEW writes: In worship sharing, we gather in small groups to focus on a particular question (or questions) to explore our own experience and share … Read more

– Help needed for Incarcerated People From Quaker Voice of Maryland Newsletter of March 16, 2022 “Hello Friends, This is the final week for bills to be voted out of committee and the Ombudsman Bill has yet to be scheduled … Read more

Washington Post – by Gillian Brockell March 13, 2022 “The painful, cutting and brilliant letters Black people wrote to their former enslavers … Jourdon Anderson and his family were freed by Union troops during the Civil War and left Tennessee … Read more

The Light House, a homeless prevention center, is one that Annapolis Friends Meeting (AFM) has supported for years and continues to support. It was wonderful recently to see on Facebook (FB) that Safeway grocery store is also supporting the shelter. Check … Read more

By Dan Rodricks.. “I know what Bob Bruninga would say about Vladimir Putin’s barbaric war on Ukraine and the calls for the U.S. and its allies to ban the import of Russian oil as a major sanction: “The future is … Read more

From Quaker Voice of Maryland – Hello Friends, Welcome to Week 9 of the General Assembly!   Last week… Voting sessions are starting to happen. Some of our bills are scheduled for voting sessions in committee – the sooner they get voted on … Read more

From Peace Action – “The Window of Diplomacy Has Narrowed, But Bold & Sustained Negotiation is the Only Solution Russia’s naked aggression against the Ukrainian people will cause immense human suffering and will have ripple effects across the world…. ” … Read more

From AFSC on Feb 24, 2022 – Today, the Russian military began shelling and missile attacks on cities across Ukraine. These attacks are a violation of Ukrainian sovereignty and international law. They are a brutal assault on Ukrainians and must … Read more

The World Council of Churches denounces any and every use of deadly armed force to resolve disputes that could be resolved by dialogue. We firmly believe that dialogue – based on the principles of international law and respect for established national … Read more

Update from the Quaker Voice of Maryland… Hello Friends, Last week… So many hearings! Ombuds, Energy Performance Targets, and Climate Solutions Now all had hearings in their chamber committee of origin. Check out the Quaker Voice website update that includes links to bill testimony … Read more

This week the Baltimore Sun apologized for decades of systematic racism… In the editorial published Friday the paper announces “We are deeply and profoundly sorry: For decades, The Baltimore Sun promoted policies that oppressed Black Marylanders; we are working to … Read more